The wife of Turkish Ambassador Ahmet Demirok (fifth left) with Shangri-La Doha officials and staff at the launch of Turkish food festival at Sridan restaurant. Pic: Salim Matramkot/ The Peninsula
Turkish food festival ‘A Culinary Journey to the Bosphorus’ has been launched at Shangri-La’s Sridan restaurant for Turkish cuisine lovers.
The festival, which runs until December 14, showcases the well-known restaurant’s expanding range of authentic Turkish delicacies for breakfast, lunch and dinner every day but Friday.
Ryan Sonson, Executive Chef at Shangri-La, Doha, said, “The idea of this promotion is to offer a far wider variety of choices within Sridan Restaurant’s five tantalising culinary sections: hot buffet, cold buffet, mezzes and salads, grills, and desserts.”
Chef Taylan Yucel and Chef Necdet Kaya – both here from Shangri-La Bosphorus in Istanbul – have transformed the Sridan buffet into a spread worthy of a sultan, said Sonson. The restaurant has largely retained its existing décor for the Festival except for the addition of traditional Turkish ‘Evil Eye’ decorations in crisp white and brilliant blue. But in an unusual twist, the universally recognised motifs have been cunningly concealed around Sridan so that visitors may find, photograph, and post them on social media in order to be entered into a lucky prize draw.
The grand prize sponsored by Turkish Airlines is a pair of round-trip, business-class tickets to Istanbul for three nights’ stay at the famous Shangri-La Bosphorus.
The prize draw is open to all Doha residents over 21 holding a valid Qatar residency permit. To participate, one has to visit Sridan and look for hidden ‘evil eyes’. Take a picture or a selfie with one, and share with Shangri-La on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter using the hashtags #TurkishAirlines #EvilEyeatSridan and #ShangriLaDoha. The lucky winner will be selected at random and announced on December 18 via social media.
The Turkish Festival runs until December 14 for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and features iconic traditional dishes, such as Sucuk Ekmek, Doner Garnituru Ile, Pilic Topkapi, Tarcini Kuzu Incik and Begendi, and Leverek Buhulama.
